Isinbayeva Again! 5.05m World Pole Vault record in Beijing
Beijing - For the second straight Olympic Games, Yelena Isinbayeva set a new World record in the Pole Vault. Sending the capacity crowd at National Stadium into a frenzy, the Russian defended her title with a leap of 5.05m, adding a centimetre to her own 5.04m record set last month at the Herculis Super Grand Prix in Monaco.
“I was trying to do my best for the crowd,” said the 26-year-old after setting her 24th world mark. “I felt that I could not go without a world record because of the support the crowd gave me.”
Beijing 2008 - Day Two Summary - 16 Aug
Beijing, China - Usain Bolt's
9.69 World record* left other
gold medal performances in the
shade after the end of the
second day of Athletics at the
Games of the XXIX Olympiad,
Beijing 2008.
It was still Saturday morning in
Jamaica, and we imagine this
means there was plenty of day
and evening left to celebrate
the 9.69 World record run by
Usain Bolt in Saturday night's (beijing
time) 100m final, which
concluded the second day of
Olympic athletics at Beijing's
National Stadium.
Beijing 2008 - Day One Summary -
15 Aug
Beijing - Ethiopia's Tirunesh Dibaba ran the second-fastest 10,000m ever for women en route to winning the gold medal in the first track event of the Beijing Olympics, set an Olympic Record of 29:54.66, and became only the second woman to ever dip under 30:00 for 10,000m.
RDC-Cairo holds the second IAAF
CECS Level I
Lecturers’ course
The Second IAAF CECS Level I
Lecturers’ course in Arabic
Language was conducted at
RDC-Cairo from 19 to 24 July
2008
16
participants, representing 13
Arabic-speaking Member
Federations of RDC-Cairo
attended the course.
RDC
RDC Cairo organised
a "Training Camp & Seminar on
throwing events" from 1 to 10
June 2008.
Dibaba’s World record and Kaki’s World Junior mark leaves Oslo in awe - ÅF Golden League
Oslo,
Norway - Tirunesh Dibaba said last night that she wanted to run “very fast”
and 14:11.15 for 5000m is certainly very fast! The Ethiopian’s World 5000m record* was the shock while Sudan’s Abubaker
Kaki’s World Junior 800m mark provided the awe of a wonderful evening’s
athletics at the ExxonMobil Bislett Games, the second meet
of the ÅF Golden League 2008.
The
first Arabic version of the New
Studies in Athletics (NSA) is
now available
The New Studies in Athletics
(NSA) is available in the
following languages: English,
Chinese, French, Russian and
Spanish. Now it is available in
Arabic language as the first
Arabic version was released on
May 2008.
RDC Cairo hosts "Women Athletics Seminar"
RDC-Cairo organized a
"Women Athletics
Seminar"
from 19-24 April 2008, following
the approval of the RDC-Cairo
Board Meeting 2007 to conduct a
seminar dedicated to only women
in athletics, More....
RDC-Cairo
host the Second CECS Level III
courses with jumps events Course
in Cairo, Egypt
The Second CECS Level III courses -in Jumps events- of the new IAAF Coaches Education and Certification System and the first one for RDC-Cairo was conducted from 15 to 28 March 2008. While the first CECS Level III courses -Throws events- was conducted at RDC San Juan (2-15 March 2008).More .......
World champion Luke Kibet offers a beacon of hope for troubled Kenya
While
watching a group of Kenyan
athletes training at the Nairobi
Uhuru Gardens, 2007 World
Marathon champion Luke Kibet can
easily pass without notice. The
24-year-old who struck gold in
Osaka has a relatively short
stature compared to the seven
athletes who are training with
him. Even though he has been at
the head of the training pack
for most of the one and half
hours session Kibet is not a man
who seems to standout from the
crowd, and on a bright day like
this not even his brightly
coloured training shirt is able
to clearly pick him out from the
group.
IAAF backs Autonomy of Sport initiatives
IAAF President Lamine Diack has
supported calls from the IOC and
other Olympic stakeholders to
unite and act quickly to counter
threats to the autonomy of the
Olympic and sports movement in
general.
As a member of the IOC
International Relations
Commission, President Diack was
in Lausanne for a two day summit
called the “Autonomy of Sport
Conference.”
Kibet's Osaka gold: a shock Marathon win for Kenya?
saturday 25 august 2007
Osaka, Japan - Given that over 500 Kenyans ran under two hours twenty minutes for a marathon last year, and that most of the world’s big city race titles are taken by the men from the Rift Valley, ‘Kenyan wins marathon’ is probably the most overworked introduction in................
